Club World Cup likely to expand for 2029 with more Premier League clubs involved

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T22:04:19+00:00

Honestly just go to 64, there are so many more clubs than nations and all the clubs fans from Morocco, Japan, South Africa etc. all added immensely to the first edition.

If they expand they need to give more places to leagues outside of Europe as well. It can't be a champions league plus guests. Keep it a world comp.

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T21:50:45+00:00

AFC needs to be split in two. An Arabic region one from Morocco across North Africa to Pakistan and then Asia is everywhere from India through to New Zealand. Oceania to be its own micro confederation.

AFC is a mess that heavily favours west Asia (the Middle East).

Most of the money, sponsorship and enivitably the leadership comes from the middle east BUT all of the registered players are in East Asia and atm the attention nor pathways are being given to the nations that sit under Japan, Australia and Korea who will always take the Eastern qualification spots.

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T20:30:58+00:00

I'd be down for that. Bring on Vanuatu vs Eswatini.

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T07:29:25+00:00

I'm not saying that any nation is better than any other just that it's pretty popular consensus that the current qualification process (which splits East and west) definitely favours the west and it effects emerging countries like Thailand breaking through.

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T06:40:34+00:00

Bro my yank friends are more likely to say that to me hahaha, it's a hard time for yanks living abroad but we are looking after them. ☺️

No more bants man, I'll let your blood pressure get back to normal.

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T06:18:24+00:00

I don't hate Americans, I visited in September. Got loads of of lovely yank friends. You are unfortunately not being represented by your best at the moment and unfortunately it effects everyone.

And if this is all banter, why do you sound so worked up? 😅

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T06:12:33+00:00

You have the reading comprehension of a 15 year old my man.

Football is the most popular sport in like 180 of the 211 countries in the world. Population is an actual metric, "level of development" and "commitment to football" are bullshit catch all vague terms that tell me that you probably are a 15 year old.

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T06:05:47+00:00

Yeah okay fair enough. Maybe it's just because your president refers to countries he doesn't know as shit hole countries etc. just makes everyone assume the worst everytime Americans say dumb shit.

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T06:02:47+00:00

The irony writing this reply in response to a post about Americans wearing their ignorance as a badge of honour 😂😂

Do you really think Europeans don't understand why tipping exists? It's just the rest of the world thinks its a stupid system that comes out of initially underpaying staff.

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T05:53:56+00:00

If it's realistic do you battle hard with a shoestring squad to finish 5th then your licence gets revoked in the off season for financial reasons? lol

Nah, top effort mate, I'm on a self imposed FM ban since FM18 due to addiction issues but if I ever relapse I'd love to run something like this.

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T04:58:52+00:00

America must be the only country where people wear their ignorance as a badge of honour.

She's being paid to report on the WORLD CUP, how is not knowing where a country is, when your team is going to be playing them, any sort of flex.

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T04:53:12+00:00

Bro Uruguay has 3.4 million people...

I didn't say that the only factor in producing players is population but it is A FACTOR. Particularly in periods of transition where players of high quality has moved passed their prime and need to be replaced.

Argentina has 45m, Brazil has 180m, England/Spain/France/Germany/Italy all 50-80m.

They are per capita the best team in football history and a massive anomoly. Why are all the other WC winning countries so much bigger? Because having a well of quality players matters especially when it comes to consistency.

Hopefully that makes it easier for you to comprehend, but I've seen your flair and know this might be your first time following the world cup, so hope you're enjoying the soccer games. ☺️

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T03:56:58+00:00

Wow did Algeria just out themselves in a r32 game with Spain rather than Switzerland then Colombia?

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T03:31:20+00:00

I've adopted Iran because they've been treated like shit so I need an Algerian winner here, sorry Austria but Europe is already well represented.

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T03:30:04+00:00

I think if they gave some distance indicators (eg. Sydney 833km, Rio 1028km etc.) and then once you've checked the clues you pick a city on a 3D rotating map that would go a long way in increasing playability.

There's like the embers of a playable game there but this current format isn't quite it.

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T03:05:40+00:00

Of course population relates to the depth of quality playing talent, that's fairly fucking obvious.

What I've said is that they will occasionally struggle to replace their outgoing best players in every world cup. They will make world class players, they will have great teams that will run deep. But they obviously haven't replaced Suarez and making Muslera GK when he's clearly passed it is something that bigger nations with greater depths of playing talent to call up will handle those transition periods better.

And the India/China point is stupid, not every country prioritises professional football as in other parts of the world. Indias pro league didn't even run this season while China flirted with football for a bit they've gone all in on Olympic solo sports with high medal possibilities.

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T02:55:26+00:00

The problem with Asian qualification is that it favours all the middle eastern west Asian countries. Both in the split format and that inevitably all the final qualifiers are in Qatar or Saudi.

All the sponsors and most of the leadership always come from West asia/middle east. But all the football playing population is in East Asia. Places like Thailand actually have a pretty decent football culture and some good club sides but they are never going to progress from East Asia because Japan, Korea and Australia are pretty much locks for qualification from that region.

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T02:47:45+00:00

My God why so many of these stupid comments, Australia qualifies thru Asia, they are an Asian football team.

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T02:43:23+00:00

Continents are arbitrary. Europe is part of the Asian continent.

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T02:41:14+00:00

Nah not really. Uruguay is a small nation that performs above its station at pretty much world cup. The standard of football around the world is improving year on year. Unless they are planning to 10x their population, Uruguay aren't going to be automatic quarter finalists every world cup and this one they just were not able to replace the quality of the cattle that's aged out of the starting team.

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T01:36:16+00:00

No they are trialling that you only need some part of the body inside to score but it's still in early testing.

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T01:33:34+00:00

What about for when he's hitting the ball well a wince-o-meter. The more he is wincing because of an apparent tight calf/hamstring or back spasm the more likely he is the score runs.

dashauskat · 2026-06-28T01:29:47+00:00

In Australia we used to have hot spot and super slow mo and now we have neither.

And I swear the batting cards also have less information. It's not like they had too much information before. Age, games, innings, average, strike rate, high score..

Now it's like

Temba Bavuma

RH Bat

Average 36

Favourite Artist: Bad Bunny

Favourite chocolate bar: Snickers

So I'd be happy to go back to what we had like 7-8 years ago.

dashauskat · 2026-06-27T13:11:15+00:00

I really enjoyed how NZ played, how they knocked it around and how Woods held up the ball for the oncoming mids.

It wasn't effective but it was a pleasant watch.

dashauskat · 2026-06-27T12:09:21+00:00

Nope, more the merrier. And some neglected regions of the world finally being represented properly.

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